His entire family must have been on pins and needles.
It was really touch and go' for Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, left, with his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, mother, Mary Rezaian, and brother Ali Rezaian in Landstuhl, Germany, on Monday after his release from 18 months of imprisonment in Iran.
(Martin Baron / Washington Post)
Matt PearceContact Reporter
Having spent 18 months in an Iranian prison – where he lost 40 pounds, paced a small cell for hours and was sometimes held in isolation – Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian worried about his release from captivity until the very end.
When the Swiss air force jet carrying Rezaian, his family and two other American prisoners took off from Tehran last weekend, the passengers burst into applause and then applauded again when the jet left Iranian airspace, according to Washington Post Foreign Editor Doug Jehl, who debriefed Rezaian in Germany on Monday.
“It really was touch and go, he said, in the final hours as to whether he’d be able to leave,” Jehl told The Times on Monday, adding that there was uncertainty as to whether Iranian officials would allow Rezaian’s wife and his mother to leave Iran with him. “He was not sure that this trauma would be over until the plane actually began to take off.”
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It was really touch and go' for Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, left, with his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, mother, Mary Rezaian, and brother Ali Rezaian in Landstuhl, Germany, on Monday after his release from 18 months of imprisonment in Iran.
(Martin Baron / Washington Post)
Matt PearceContact Reporter
Having spent 18 months in an Iranian prison – where he lost 40 pounds, paced a small cell for hours and was sometimes held in isolation – Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian worried about his release from captivity until the very end.
When the Swiss air force jet carrying Rezaian, his family and two other American prisoners took off from Tehran last weekend, the passengers burst into applause and then applauded again when the jet left Iranian airspace, according to Washington Post Foreign Editor Doug Jehl, who debriefed Rezaian in Germany on Monday.
“It really was touch and go, he said, in the final hours as to whether he’d be able to leave,” Jehl told The Times on Monday, adding that there was uncertainty as to whether Iranian officials would allow Rezaian’s wife and his mother to leave Iran with him. “He was not sure that this trauma would be over until the plane actually began to take off.”
Continue reading at:
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-jason-rezaian-release-20160118-story.html
